Cookies and Biscuits

Andrei Feher’s salam de biscuiţi

Andrei Feher’s salam de biscuiţi (Romanian chocolate salami)

Conductor’s grandmother knows best when it comes to food Andrei Feher stands at the conductor’s podium, his back to the audience, his music stand set low. His body moves from large lush sweeps to small staccato shudders. He swoops forward and pulls back.  What the audience doesn’t see are the 28-year-old’s raised eyebrows, widened eyes, […] Read more…

08-14 September 1916: Boys and Girls

Boys And then there were 650 Military doctors declared another 23 of the 118th Battalion medically unfit.  With these men gone, the Battalion’s numbers dropped to about 650, or roughly two-thirds of how many were needed to be kept an independent unit. Those who remained continued to perform their drills, learn trench warfare, and get […] Read more…